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Trance Notebook #15
fell into a reverie about / asking the interviewer / to pose nude for me or / somehow making it / clear that he could / invite himself to… More
Remembering Günter Grass (1927-2015)
PEN American Center mourns the loss and celebrates the life of German PEN member, honorary PEN president, and Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass, who died on Monday, aged 87. More
Remembering Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015)
PEN American Center is deeply saddened by the passing of Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's most iconic writers and famed for his journalism, novels, and political satire… More
Killing Stones
Stone was but stone, and marble belonged to the hills, they said. The patient carving and chiseling of men long gone would not remain to remind us that we… More
Conviction of Gao Yu Part of China’s Effort to Silence Journalists
Prominent journalist and activist Gao Yu's conviction today delivers another blow to free expression in China. More
Why I Killed My Best Friend
How could the world have changed so much in just two weeks? Does salt really not get worms? I get off at the next stop, on the verge of… More
Far from My Father
The car proposed in exchange was less prestigious, but cheaper. Her great-uncle pointed out that, once the hearse was decorated with flowers and ribbons, you wouldn’t be able to… More
Two Pieces by Nancy Kricorian
Oh people of long memory, listen, look, speak, remember: your stories are a homeland. More
The Distant Marvels
A small crab makes its way towards my foot, as if it wants to get into the house. It opens a tiny, cobalt claw at me. First Ada’s outstretched… More
Siamanto’s Bloody News
An entire generation of Western Armenian writers were extinguished by the Ottoman government just as they were [...] bringing Armenian literature into modernism and into an international light. More